by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Nov 23, 2017 | Banner, Behavior, Educators, Pedagogy, Snapshot
It is 11:00 and the Schoolroom children have been playing both in the classroom and in the yard since 9:00. A gentle winding down is beginning the slow transition to story time, lunch and nap. Watching, I can feel the children’s play becoming less vigorous; the...
by Liisa Hale | Nov 22, 2017 | Behavior, Educators, Holidays, Parents, Pedagogy, Resources
Parents and teachers are eager to share cultural traditions with children – sometimes so eager that children end up with lots of disassociated ideas floating in their heads which they try hard to assimilate into their construct of the world. I fondly remember a...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Jul 19, 2017 | Behavior, Resources
Infants and toddlers are totally egocentric, believing that the world revolves around their needs and desires. Their brains are too immature to recognize that others feel pain, or that other children are any different from the toys they play with. A one-year-old may...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Jan 1, 2017 | Banner, Behavior, Snapshot
When Gabe’s mother walks through the office on her way to pick up Gabe, she meets Gabe’s four-year-old friend Lilly going out the door with her mother. “Gabe is still cleaning up,” announces Lilly with a little foreboding in her voice. Sure enough, Gabe is putting the...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Dec 1, 2016 | Banner, Behavior, Mental Health, Pedagogy, Snapshot
Today the children were in the block area wanting to build and using the big dump trucks loading them and dumping them. “You can’t drive here said Eve there is a bag accident on the freeway” Cameron drew his big truck back and seemed to be deciding if her would just...
by Claire Bainer and Liisa Hale | Aug 1, 2016 | Banner, Behavior, Snapshot
I love you I hate you I never will marry nobody but you. – Jessica, age 4 Children’s language is often quite tangled. Today in the nursery school Jeff was upset that the new teacher had asked him to come back and put away the crayons he’d been using to draw his...
